Pardon the phrase, but for the most part, the McCain campaign worked very hard to keep Sarah Palin on a leash. That may be happening to Paul Ryan to some extent, now  though Im not claiming an exact comparison. Take the personalities and positions out of it and look at it as a campaign style. If the Romney camp does that, similar to what McCain did  try to keep the gloves on just enough  theyll go down throwing rabbit punches.

People can think what they want of Obama and his team. But no one should fool themselves into thinking they arent heavyweights when it comes to campaigning. When you step into the ring with a heavyweight and pull your punches, you will always get your clock cleaned. It would be wise to remember something Barack Obama once implied: White House to Dems on town halls: If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard

Ryan himself has emerged as a central player in this calculation, making the case internally for a clearer conservative policy message. One high level Republican with ties to the campaign told BuzzFeed that Ryan was chaffing at Boston constraining him from talking about and defending his policy ideas from Democratic attacks. Ryan wanted to be unleashed, the Republican said.

No they are not. Anyone who thinks this is obviously not paying the least attention to what is currently going on in the campaigning and instead is merely clinging to their emotion based preconceived opinions.

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posted on 09/16/2012 12:10:33 PM PDT
by MNJohnnie
(Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)

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